[OSList] is our voting software dead?

[Harrison Owen]

Actually I still have the old software, but I agree with Michael. There are much better ways. The problem for me with that software, as with all efforts (including Sticky-dots) to prioritize the issues that were raised on the first day or so of the OS is that it is  measurement of “yesterday’s passions.” Very much like the most recent Quarterly Financial Report... all it tells you about is old news. On a standard 2 ½ day OS, when the 3rd day dawns, everybody had had a night to sleep on everything. Almost inevitably a lot will have changed. Hot issues will merge with other hot issues, hot issues will cool, new issues will have been thrown up thanks to the interaction of the preceding two days. There is also the question of Actionable Issues (which is the focal point of the 3rd day) which don’t necessarily include all the issues previously discussed. I believe Chris Corrigan started it all when he talked about “opening the space for action.” Anyhow that is what he did, and I do as well. Very simple procedure which I think I covered in the 3rd Edition of The User’s Guide. Nowhere near as elegant as Michael’s “Praxis” – but it will do in a pinch, and is not in German. J

 

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From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Michael Herman
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 5:41 AM
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Subject: [OSList] is our voting software dead?

 

hi all, especially those of you who've used the old multi-voting software.

 

i'm wondering when was the last time you used the multi-voting software to do prioritization at the end of an OS meeting?  i'm trying to figure out if it's still useful on the latest PCs.  i'm a mac guy, so can't test it locally here.   

 

and if not using the old software, what are you using on day 3 of os events that are too big for dots?  is there a new state-of-the-art when it comes to converging into action with larger groups? 




many thanks, m

 

 
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